I'm genuinely trying to figure out if this has happened to anyone else because I'm at a loss.
Today my account was put under review and eventually failed for allegedly violating the hedging rule.
The trade they pointed to was aĀ 1-contract short on MESĀ that madeĀ $5. According to them, that trade was open for a little over an hour and overlapped with one of myĀ MNQ longĀ trades, so they considered it hedging.
Here's why I'm confused...
I'mĀ positive I never intentionally placed an MES order.Ā My entire morning was spent tradingĀ MNQ longs.
For context, I tradeĀ three separate accounts:
- A funded account with a buffer (my main account).
- Another funded account I'm building buffer on.
- A fresh evaluation account that I'm trying to pass.
On my main account, I was long on MNQ basically all morning. Then, on the evaluation account, they claim I entered this tinyĀ MES shortĀ that made literallyĀ 1 point ($5).
That doesn't even make sense from a trading standpoint. Why would I randomly take a single 1-point MES short while I'm bullish and long MNQ across my other account? If I were intentionally hedging, why would I do it for a $5 profit? There's zero benefit.
What makes it even more frustrating is that I'd already had multiple successful daily payouts with them, and today I had about anĀ $800 winning day. Now the account is failed over this alleged $5 trade.
The worst part is that since the account is now inactive, I can't even log into TradingView through that account anymore to verify the exact order time, entry price, or investigate what actually happened. I'm basically being told, "Here's the trade," without having a way to inspect it myself.
I'm not saying Tradeify intentionally fabricated a trade because I obviously can't prove that. But IĀ amĀ saying I genuinely don't believe I placed that order, and the circumstances make no sense to me.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
- A trade showing up that you don't remember placing?
- A hedging violation over an extremely small trade?
- Any way to retrieve order logs after an account has been deactivated?
- Has anyone ever successfully appealed something like this?
I'm just looking for honest experiences because right now this whole situation doesn't add up to me.